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Vista and Notebooks
In the market for a notebook - heaps of stuff around - but have been told that a notebook with less than 2Gig of Ram is about as much use as (something to do with bulls not being cows)
Is this true - what was wrong with Dos 6.0 ?
By the way when I was a little younger VISTA was the Hymn Book we used in Mass - I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that Gates Inc have borrowed a theme from the Catholic Church
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Ya 2Gig of ram min... Vista on it's own, with nothing running will take about 700meg of ram. You should also look for a decent ammount of hard disk space as the new service pack due out for Vista is bigger than the base OS.
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if you want to use vista get a 64bit processor dual core or somthing of the like otherwise its as slow as the second comming.
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What would you recommend as a min Hard Disk size - 80/100
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I have Vista just because I got a new laptop and it comes packaged with it, but there are no drivers for my old HP OfficeJet, so now I need a new fecking printer as well.
Anyhoo, have 1GB of RAM and its fine. Am not running any major graphics or games, though. Would go the extra gig if you're planning on hammering it.
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Dual processor definitely - separate graphics processor is the way to go.
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Def go for 2gig of ram if running any graphic or game progs and with vista that should do as well. Hard disk at least 100, enough room then for photos of the Force!LOL!!!! This usually adds to the price to up grade to these specks.
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My interpretation of this conversation, blah blah, blah bbbbblllllllaaaaaah.,....gig ram, etc
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We luvs ya for your beauty, not your brains, FR.
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Gummy Bears mate - lots of gummy bears FR
Thanks for that - thought the person who gave the advice was a bit over the top but obviously spot on - much appreciated
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i'm with front row on this one.............im just sitting here scratching my head (while my brain goes meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow)
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You all sound like a mob of Sheep when you start with the tecno babble :S
Baaaaa Baa Baaaaaaa Baa Baaaaaaaaaaaaa :eek: :eek:
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Sorry, boring as bat shit. Why dont you geeks just pm each other!
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Am actually not a geek (wouldn't even be permitted to be a Geek Sidekick). Like TQ1, I do a little research before giving away my hard-earned :)
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To explain to non understanding peps
Option A Laptop does all that I want $699 - with Home operating system - you can't buy this now
Option B Laptop does all that I want $1800 - because of the new operation system Vista -
$1100 difference because of a new operating system - that's a lot of gummy bears / chicken to Daisy /Magners to TLH / 2 new shirts for Jargan
Back to the original question what was wrong with DOS 6.0 ? is Gates INC supporting the catholic church ?
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I still use XP quite happily on one of my machines (haven't used DOS 6.0 for some time, although it was good for the Monkey Island games), there's nothing out there that I want which requires Vista. I do like my widget things on the right hand side of the screen but that's about it.
XP will still be around for some time yet, but regardless of which one you choose, i'd still be looking at a lappy with a bit of grunt for future expansion. Better to pay a little more now and get something with extra memory and hard disk space. Upgrading these things later for laptops (particularly with HP) is a very expensive process.
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I agree with Sagerian on this spend more now, saves later. Try and steer away from HP, To upgrade HP cost SHIT loads because only HP components work, GO generic cheaper to up grade and use what you want.
AND NO i'm not a GEEK just i closet one(so my wife reckons!!!).
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If you're just a home user who wants it for writing documents, surfing the net, email and touching up photos I'd say go for the cheaper one - it should happily last 2-3 years at which point you give it to one of the kids and then get your self the cheaper one of the day (which will no doubt cost a similar amount as todays cheaper one, and be way more powerful than an expensive one if you bought it today.)
If you need power and huge storage, get yourself a desktop. A budget laptop and a grunty desktop will cost the same as a grunty laptop and and be way more versatile.